Wavemachine Readings: Frank Bidart, Garth Greenwell

November 15, 2013

FRANK BIDART
GARTH GREENWELL

Friday, Nov 15th
1156 Chapel St, 7 pm

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FRANK BIDART’s most recent full length collections of poetry are Metaphysical Dog (FSG, 2013), Watching the Spring Festival (2008), Star Dust (2005), and Desire (1997), which was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. He has won many prizes, including the Wallace Stevens Award, and, most recently, the 2007 Bollingen Prize for American Poetry. He teaches at Wellesley College and lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

GARTH GREENWELL is the author of Mitko, which won the 2010 Miami University Press Novella Prize and was a finalist for the Edmund White Debut Fiction Award and a Lambda Award. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Yale Review, Iowa Review, Salmagundi, Boston Review, and elsewhere, and has won the Grolier Prize, an award from the Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Foundation, the John Atherton Poetry Scholarship at Bread Loaf, and the Bechtel Prize from Teachers & Writers. He is currently an Arts Fellow in fiction at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.